This white paper discusses how one organization leveraged an advanced virtual solution to build a private cloud so that they could rapidly access data in a cost-effective manner. Learn how this platform helped them to meet the needs of their business and review the significant benefits they are now enjoying. 

Explore advanced networking features in VMware vSphere 5.0 in this in-depth, step-by-step guide to configuring and testing these essential features for your virtual environment. Discover how NetFlow, port mirroring, and user-defined resource pools help network admins gain visibility in virtual machine traffic and troubleshoot network issues. 

This white paper describes a virtualized infrastructure that applies storage and server virtualization technologies to cost-effectively achieve a flexible, high-performance, dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to manage and scale. 

By turning to a virtual-ready infrastructure, IT has the opportunity to create a next-generation architecture that fundamentally changes the way data centers work for the future. In doing so, IT has the opportunity to transform its own value to the organization by making the infrastructure more flexible and ready to move at the speed of business. 

Learn how increased use of virtualization and cloud computing require corporate IT organizations to increase use of automated self-service provisioning and advanced performance monitoring and analysis tools, plus how recent extensions to Dell's Virtual Integrated System (VIS) management software portfolio are addressing these requirements. 

Leveraging Dell's Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM), the Virtual Integrated System (VIS) Self-Service Creator combines a self-service portal with policy-based provisioning and resource control. Download this InfoWorld preview for further details. 

This white paper provides a detailed summary of tests performed to validate an EMC infrastructure for virtual desktops enabled by VMware View 4.5, with an EMC VNX5700 unified storage platform. Read now to learn more. 

Storage is the backbone of your virtual environment. Learn how virtualization has made shared storage a necessity in your data center, and find out which technologies and strategies to employ to get the most of out of your storage. 

Read this solution brief to learn how the Dell EqualLogic PS Series' bundled Auto-Snapshot Manager and Auto-Replication features are used to effectively integrate with VMware for scalable online data protection of the complete virtual infrastructure. This paper also discusses protection and simplification for the virtual environment. 

The exclusive sponsor of today's virtual seminar has compiled a library of useful information for you to read - and will have technical staff on hand in the virtual environment to answer your questions about deduplication technology. 

Virtualized iSCSI SANs are increasingly being chosen for virtual datacenter deployments because they help simplify storage management and overcome performance, scalability and cost barriers of traditional SAN architectures. 

This white paper focuses on a next-gen backup and disaster recovery solution designed to protect both physical and virtual environments, delivering advanced data protection and recovery capabilities while keeping overall costs to a minimum. 

In this webcast, IT consultant Andrew Kutz traces the role of backup in virtual environments, starting with the early adopters and moving to today's top backup methodologies.